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Mendelssohn: Complete Music for Cello and Piano
Since none of Mendelssohn's cello and piano works were currently available on CD, this disc would have been welcome enough...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989
Grieg & Mendelssohn Piano Concertos
Cécile Ousset | London Symphony Orchestra | Neville Marriner
Because so much influenced by Schumann's A minor Concerto, Grieg's in the same key is so often coupled with it....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1985
Mendelssohn Organ Sonatas Nos. 1-6.
Considering that Mendelssohn was the most significant composer for the organ for most of the century between the end of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1997
Mendelssohn; Schumann Violin Concertos
Daniel Harding | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Renaud Capuçon
The lightness and resilience of Renaud Capuçon’s playing at the very start of the Mendelssohn, matched by the transparent textures...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004
Mendelssohn & Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos
Cho-Liang Lin | Michael Tilson Thomas | Philharmonia Orchestra
When young prize-winning violinists tackle their first major recording, there is always the risk of disappointment, but with this formidable...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1984
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Op 64. Octet, Op 20
Pinchas Zukerman | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
After a warmly praised CBS debut recording of the Mendelssohn concerto with the New York Philharmonic way back in 1969...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1985
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6. Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles Mackerras | Philharmonia Orchestra
There is an immediacy and incisive, almost forensic clarity to this 2009 live performance that makes for tremendous drama at...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2011
Bach; Mendelssohn; Panufnik Violin Concertos
Alexander Sitkovetsky | Dimitry Sitkovetsky | New European Strings Chamber Orchestra
In case you were wondering – I was – what could possibly tie these four seemingly disparate works together, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 8/2004
Mendelssohn Works for Piano & Orchestra
Anton Kuerti | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Paul Freeman
After emigrating to the USA as a child, the Viennese-born Anton Kuerti studied with teachers including Rudolf Serkin. So it...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1991
Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies, etc
Claudio Abbado's 1968 coupling with the LSO of Mendelssohn's two most popular symphonies, the Scottish, No. 3 and the Italian,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1986
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